Dear Dr. Smith,

      I love your column in The Saunders Report. In fact, it's the main reason I subscribe. I have never been to a psychologist but feel comfortable writing to you.

      I am a 56-year-old divorced woman who loves being alone. I...

      There are only two possible answers when it comes to the saddest country music song of all time: it's either I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams or He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.

      Fight me.

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      Sorry, Michael. You are no longer the worst "Bolton" in the world.

      No, music lovers have not pardoned the croakin' crooner for desecrating When A Man Loves A Woman in 1991. He still deserves the opprobrium of the masses and...

      Knock knock.

      Who's there?

      Ain'tcha.

      Ain'tcha who?

      Ain'tcha mama on the pancake box?

     When you heard that joke in Rockingham as kids in the 1960s, you either laughed or punched somebody in th...

      It might've been the weirdest telephone call ever received.

      It definitely led to the weirdest call ever made.

      Back in the 1990s, when Durham was internationally renowned for its contentious school board meetings -...

      Perhaps it was my 10-year-old brain convincing me that I had a cloak of invisibility, and that if I walked around inside the A&P while eating that honeybun I hadn't paid for, nobody would see me.

      Genius, right?

     Or, possibly, one of my...